On 23.01.2018 07:11, Richard Heck wrote:
On 01/22/2018 04:23 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 22/01/2018 à 10:10, racoon a écrit :
So LyX should load the library's stdinset.inc first and then load the
code that extends it next.
Richard, who ran into similar problems as I did, suggested that LyX
could be enhanced by automatically looking for and loading an .ext
file, e.g. stdinset.inc.ext.
I think that is a good idea and this concept could be used for other
sorts of layout files, like .modules.
One idea that I do not like about the .ext file idea is that it does
not scale when you want to extend a file that has already been
extended, which might happen if we had a site directory as proposed in
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10326.
One idea I had about that is to change the behavior of Input (which
searches for files in user dir, then build dir, and finally system
dir) so that it skips to the next level when doing recursive input.
Example:
* In user_dir/foo.layout, if I do "Input foo.layout", it will search
in build dir, and then system dir
* in build_dir/foo.layout, it will try only sys_dir/foo.layout
The same will work if we add a site directory.
Would that fix your issue, or are there cases where it would not do
what you expect?
My sense, from our previous discussion, is that this would work in the
cases racoon had in mind. But I'm not sure why this wouldn't scale. We
could of course look also for *.ext.ext.
These ideas could also probably be combined.
I guess a benefit of Jean-Marc's suggestion is that it provides the user
with more freedom to choose filenames (if his suggestion is extended in
some way like I proposed in reply to him).
Daniel
